Hiromi Tanaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 4124332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hiromi Tanaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hiromi |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanaka |
| SIGNATURE | TANAKA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Meiji University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7589-9936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negotiating digital visibility in Asia: Rethinking conceptual frameworks through (g)local communities and practices
This special issue explores the complex dynamics of digital visibility negotiation in Asian contexts. Emerging scholarship on this topic reveals how users strategically negotiate their visibility online. However, we still need to broaden the scope of our knowledge, especially outside Western contexts, in order to advance our theoretical understanding of such negotiations. Asian societies and communities, with their distinctive platform political …
Securing legal protection for informal caregiving in Hong Kong: The Way Ahead
Purpose This paper aims to examine the development of carer policies and protections in Hong Kong, emphasising the need to incorporate international practices in adult protection. It provides a substantial review of related legislations and official definitions regarding informal carers, outlining their roles and protections. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews the current legal landscape and policies for informal carers in Hong Kong, …
Ethics of care for carer service and policy: The conceptualisation and implications for social workers
This article introduces a conceptual framework that integrates feminist ethics of care into social work practice, focusing on the complexities of informal caregiving in Hong Kong. It highlights the often-overlooked role of informal carers in social services and identifies the gaps in current practices. The authors emphasise the need for recognition and resources for carers. This effort addresses the global challenges informal carers face and prom…
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes
This article explores the role of social media in athlete activism and sport commodification through the case studies of two elite multiracial athletes who represent Japan, professional tennis player Naomi Osaka and professional basketball player Rui Hachimura. Osaka's mother is Japanese and her father is Haitian-American, whereas Hachimura's mother is Japanese and his father is Beninese. Employing critical discourse analysis of Twitter and Insta…
Racial Differences in Cumulative Disadvantage Among Women and Its Relation to Health: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Cumulative Stress Inventory of Women's Experiences
Background: Cumulative disadvantage (CD) is a measure of accumulated social, economic, and person-related stressors due to unequal access to resources and opportunities, which increases a person's biological risk for disease. The purpose of this research was to develop an instrument tailored to women's experiences that had intervention and translational potential. In addition, we explored whether CD contributed to racial health disparities among …
How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising
In January 2019, instant noodle giant Nissin Foods released two animated advertisements online featuring Naomi Osaka, which elicited backlash over “whitewashing” the multiracial professional tennis player who represents Japan. Although Nissin has since pulled the advertisements and officially apologized for portraying Osaka as lighter-skinned, underlying these issues are also those of gender, especially its intersections with race/ethnicity, nati…
Japanese Manga
This entry introduces Japanese manga as a gendered form of contemporary popular media in terms of production, text, and audiences. The production of manga is characterized by a gendered segmentation of genres and hierarchical relations between male editors and female manga artists. Manga as a media text are characterized by stereotyped gender images and gender‐transgressive expressions such as cross‐dressing and male homosexuality, particularly i…
Doing Manga as Leisure and Its Meaning and Purpose: The Case of Japanese Female Manga Fans Called Fujoshi
Individualization of Marriage and Work Life Choices: A Study of Never-married Employed Women in Hong Kong and Tokyo
Current social changes in post-industrialized societies include the rise of alternate ways of living. One notable development in this light is the increase in the number of single-person households. This article intends to offer insights on the social meaning of the changing patterns of individualized ways of living among never-married employed women. In so doing, we aim to contribute to academic discussions on individualization and life-course o…
Stated Desire versus Actual Practice: Reviewing the Literature on Low Fertility Rates in Contemporary Japanese Society
This article examines the Japanese literature on the current phenomenon of low fertility in Japan, which persists despite the understanding shared by most Japanese that children are valued. By reviewing existing research on low fertility in Japan, the article examines the emergence of low fertility and introduces a new perspective that links the phenomenon to the larger context of social change in Japan. Analysis of the literature reveals that lo…
Equal Employment in Contemporary Japan: A Structural Approach
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How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising
In January 2019, instant noodle giant Nissin Foods released two animated advertisements online featuring Naomi Osaka, which elicited backlash over “whitewashing” the multiracial professional tennis player who represents Japan. Although Nissin has since pulled the advertisements and officially apologized for portraying Osaka as lighter-skinned, underlying these issues are also those of gender, especially its intersections with race/ethnicity, nati…
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes
This article explores the role of social media in athlete activism and sport commodification through the case studies of two elite multiracial athletes who represent Japan, professional tennis player Naomi Osaka and professional basketball player Rui Hachimura. Osaka's mother is Japanese and her father is Haitian-American, whereas Hachimura's mother is Japanese and his father is Beninese. Employing critical discourse analysis of Twitter and Insta…
Individualization of Marriage and Work Life Choices: A Study of Never-married Employed Women in Hong Kong and Tokyo
Current social changes in post-industrialized societies include the rise of alternate ways of living. One notable development in this light is the increase in the number of single-person households. This article intends to offer insights on the social meaning of the changing patterns of individualized ways of living among never-married employed women. In so doing, we aim to contribute to academic discussions on individualization and life-course o…
Securing legal protection for informal caregiving in Hong Kong: The Way Ahead
Purpose This paper aims to examine the development of carer policies and protections in Hong Kong, emphasising the need to incorporate international practices in adult protection. It provides a substantial review of related legislations and official definitions regarding informal carers, outlining their roles and protections. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews the current legal landscape and policies for informal carers in Hong Kong, …
Equal Employment in Contemporary Japan: A Structural Approach
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Stated Desire versus Actual Practice: Reviewing the Literature on Low Fertility Rates in Contemporary Japanese Society
This article examines the Japanese literature on the current phenomenon of low fertility in Japan, which persists despite the understanding shared by most Japanese that children are valued. By reviewing existing research on low fertility in Japan, the article examines the emergence of low fertility and introduces a new perspective that links the phenomenon to the larger context of social change in Japan. Analysis of the literature reveals that lo…
Individualization of Marriage and Work Life Choices: A Study of Never-married Employed Women in Hong Kong and Tokyo
Current social changes in post-industrialized societies include the rise of alternate ways of living. One notable development in this light is the increase in the number of single-person households. This article intends to offer insights on the social meaning of the changing patterns of individualized ways of living among never-married employed women. In so doing, we aim to contribute to academic discussions on individualization and life-course o…
Doing Manga as Leisure and Its Meaning and Purpose: The Case of Japanese Female Manga Fans Called Fujoshi
Japanese Manga
This entry introduces Japanese manga as a gendered form of contemporary popular media in terms of production, text, and audiences. The production of manga is characterized by a gendered segmentation of genres and hierarchical relations between male editors and female manga artists. Manga as a media text are characterized by stereotyped gender images and gender‐transgressive expressions such as cross‐dressing and male homosexuality, particularly i…
How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising
In January 2019, instant noodle giant Nissin Foods released two animated advertisements online featuring Naomi Osaka, which elicited backlash over “whitewashing” the multiracial professional tennis player who represents Japan. Although Nissin has since pulled the advertisements and officially apologized for portraying Osaka as lighter-skinned, underlying these issues are also those of gender, especially its intersections with race/ethnicity, nati…
Racial Differences in Cumulative Disadvantage Among Women and Its Relation to Health: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Cumulative Stress Inventory of Women's Experiences
Background: Cumulative disadvantage (CD) is a measure of accumulated social, economic, and person-related stressors due to unequal access to resources and opportunities, which increases a person's biological risk for disease. The purpose of this research was to develop an instrument tailored to women's experiences that had intervention and translational potential. In addition, we explored whether CD contributed to racial health disparities among …
Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes
This article explores the role of social media in athlete activism and sport commodification through the case studies of two elite multiracial athletes who represent Japan, professional tennis player Naomi Osaka and professional basketball player Rui Hachimura. Osaka's mother is Japanese and her father is Haitian-American, whereas Hachimura's mother is Japanese and his father is Beninese. Employing critical discourse analysis of Twitter and Insta…
Negotiating digital visibility in Asia: Rethinking conceptual frameworks through (g)local communities and practices
This special issue explores the complex dynamics of digital visibility negotiation in Asian contexts. Emerging scholarship on this topic reveals how users strategically negotiate their visibility online. However, we still need to broaden the scope of our knowledge, especially outside Western contexts, in order to advance our theoretical understanding of such negotiations. Asian societies and communities, with their distinctive platform political …
Securing legal protection for informal caregiving in Hong Kong: The Way Ahead
Purpose This paper aims to examine the development of carer policies and protections in Hong Kong, emphasising the need to incorporate international practices in adult protection. It provides a substantial review of related legislations and official definitions regarding informal carers, outlining their roles and protections. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews the current legal landscape and policies for informal carers in Hong Kong, …
Ethics of care for carer service and policy: The conceptualisation and implications for social workers
This article introduces a conceptual framework that integrates feminist ethics of care into social work practice, focusing on the complexities of informal caregiving in Hong Kong. It highlights the often-overlooked role of informal carers in social services and identifies the gaps in current practices. The authors emphasise the need for recognition and resources for carers. This effort addresses the global challenges informal carers face and prom…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)